MRI-based automatic identification and segmentation of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma using deep learning network.

Journal: BMC cancer
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Accurate identification of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ECC) from an image is challenging because of the small size and complex background structure. Therefore, considering the limitation of manual delineation, it's necessary to develop automated identification and segmentation methods for ECC. The aim of this study was to develop a deep learning approach for automatic identification and segmentation of ECC using MRI.

Authors

  • Chunmei Yang
    Department of VIP, the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.
  • Qin Zhou
    The Affiliated Mental Health Center of Jiangnan University, Wuxi Central Rehabilitation Hospital, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
  • Mingdong Li
    Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, 646000, China.
  • Lulu Xu
    College of Software, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, People's Republic of China.
  • Yanyan Zeng
    Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, 646000, China.
  • Jiong Liu
    Department of Radiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.
  • Ying Wei
    School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China ; Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging Calculation of the Ministry of Education, Shenyang 110004, China.
  • Feng Shi
    Department of Research and Development, Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence, Co., Ltd. Shanghai, China.
  • Jing Chen
    Department of Vascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, P.R. China.
  • Pinxiong Li
    Department of Radiology, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, 106 Zhongshan 2nd Road, Guangzhou, 510080, China.
  • Yue Shu
    Department of Oncology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, 646000, China.
  • Lu Yang
    Division of Mood Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
  • Jian Shu
    Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection for Food Safety (MOE and Fujian Province), Collaborative Innovation Center of Detection Technology for Haixi Food Safety and Products (Fujian Province), State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, Department of Chemistry, Fuzhou University , Fujian Province, China , 350002.